The embargo initiatives for Russia are multiplying and now SIAE has decided to suspend payments to Russian authors’ companies.
The copyright directive will not save journalism
by Riccardo Luna
“Russia’s attack on Ukraine – explains President Siae Giulio Rapetti Mogol – is unjustified and unjustifiable and jeopardizes the principles of freedom and democracy in Europe after decades. As President of the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers I express all my closeness to the Ukrainian people and institutions in these dramatic hours. In recent days we have reflected on what SIAE could have done as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine and in the end we took the decision to suspend the payment of copyright to Russian authors’ companies, until the end of the conflict, accepting obviously the more than probable suspension of the payment of copyrights to Siae by the sisters for retaliation “.